🏷 Discover The Best 1920s Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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The 1920s was a pivotal era in cinema, marked by the rise of Hollywood and the emergence of iconic stars. This decade saw the introduction of 'talkies' and the decline of silent films.

Cast

Cillian Murphy

Paul Anderson

Sophie Rundle

Natasha O'Keeffe

Peaky Blinders (2013) TV Show

8.5 11.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: gypsy, corruption, gangster, outlaw, murder, drugs, criminal, period drama, ...

Time: 1920s, 1910s

Place: england

Cast

Robert De Niro

James Woods

Elizabeth McGovern

Joe Pesci

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

8.4 6.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, Italy

Duration: 229 min.

Audience: R

Story: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Plot: new york city, regret, lovesickness, rape, life and death, sexual abuse, street gang, corruption, ...

Time: prohibition era, 1920s, 1960s, ...

Cast

Helen Mirren

Harrison Ford

Brandon Sklenar

Julia Schlaepfer

1923 (2022) TV Show

8.3 795 votes

Genre: Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 15

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.

Style: gritty

Plot: africa, montana, sequel, prequel, range war, cattle ranch, yellowstone, big game hunter, ...

Time: 1920s, 20th century

Cast

Willem Dafoe

Julianne Nicholson

Christopher Heyerdahl

Richard Dormer

Togo (2019)

8.1 2.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.

Plot: snowstorm, husky, based on true story, puppy, snow, historical, dog, sled dogs, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: alaska

Cast

Gene Kelly

Donald O'Connor

Debbie Reynolds

Jean Hagen

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

8.1 3.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: G

Story: In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

Style: satirical, romantic

Plot: fan, musical, partner, film in film, hollywood, broadway, dancing in the street, audience, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Steve Buscemi

Kelly Macdonald

Michael Shannon

Shea Whigham

Boardwalk Empire (2010) TV Show

8.0 1.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 56

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

Plot: new jersey, hitman, gangster, atlantic city, bootlegging, mobster, bordello, historical fiction, ...

Time: prohibition era, 1920s

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

Walter Huston

Tim Holt

Bruce Bennett

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

8.0 1.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

Plot: gold, based on novel or book, greed, gold rush, gold mine, friends, money, american, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: mexico

Wounded Love (2016) TV Show

7.9 86 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Turkey

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 59

Story: Azize finds herself with her 3 children and mother-in-law in a difficult fight. She raises her children while fighting the difficulties of the war period and her husband's absence whom she loves more than anything. It's about war, love, greed, treason and sacrifice.

Plot: war of independence, based on true story

Time: 1920s, 1910s

Cast

Gong Li

He Saifei

Cao Cuifen

Kong Lin

Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

7.9 804 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

Plot: competition, marriage, romantic rivalry, polygamy, concubine, tragedy, wealth, period drama, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Mikhail Kaufman

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

7.8 808 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: Soviet Union

Duration: 68 min.

Story: A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Plot: soviet union, odessa, ukraine, black and white, montage, silent film, cameraman, moscow, ...

Time: 1920s

Cable Girls (2017) TV Show

7.8 497 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 42

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.

Style: bittersweet

Plot: work, female friendship, telephone, workplace romance, rekindled romance, period piece

Time: 1920s

Cast

Volker Bruch

Liv Lisa Fries

Lars Eidinger

Benno Fu00fcrmann

Babylon Berlin (2017) TV Show

7.7 397 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Germany

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Plot: period drama, historical, historical drama, costume drama, neo-noir, european history, german history, weimar republic, ...

Time: 1920s, 1930s

Cast

N.T. Rama Rao Jr.

Ram Charan

Olivia Morris

Ray Stevenson

RRR (2022)

7.7 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: India

Duration: 187 min.

Audience: R

Story: A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.

Plot: rescue, revolution, liberation, slavery, male friendship, freedom fighter, british empire, interracial romance, ...

Time: 1920s

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012) TV Show

7.7 173 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Australia

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 34

Story: Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.

Plot: based on novel or book, private investigator, private detective, female detective, costume drama, dramatic, comforting, compassionate

Time: 1920s

Place: australia

Cast

Zhang Ziyi

Gong Li

Michelle Yeoh

Ken Watanabe

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

7.6 3.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States of America, Japan

Duration: 146 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Plot: secret love, prostitute, sibling relationship, geisha, brothel, mentor, loss of virginity, period drama, ...

Time: world war ii, 1920s, 1940s, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Lee Pace

Justine Waddell

Daniel Caltagirone

Leo Bill

The Fall (2006)

7.6 1.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

Plot: suicide attempt, stuntman, remake, morphine, hospital, patient, bandit, filmmaking, ...

Time: 1920s

91 Days (2016) TV Show

7.6 210 votes

Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: During Prohibition, the law is powerless and the mob rules Lawless, a town that thrives on the black market sale of illicitly brewed liquor. Avilio returns to town after a time away, following a lead on the murder of his family.

Plot: revenge, murder, betrayal, mafia, tragedy, gunfight, bromance, historical, ...

Time: prohibition era, 1920s

Cast

Meg Ryan

John Cusack

Kelsey Grammer

Christopher Lloyd

Anastasia (1997)

7.6 5.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: G

Story: Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting with her grandmother. She is accompanied by two con men, who intend to pass her off as the Grand Duchess Anastasia to the Dowager Empress for a reward.

Plot: nightmare, villain, czar / tsar / tzar, musical, based on true story, sorcerer, period drama, catholic, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

John Lone

Joan Chen

Peter O'Toole

Ruocheng Ying

The Last Emperor (1987)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: China, France

Duration: 163 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Plot: suicide, experiment, isolation, buddhism, becoming an adult, war crimes, suicide attempt, war on drugs, ...

Time: world war ii, 1920s, 1940s, ...

Place: china

Cast

Angelina Jolie

John Malkovich

Jeffrey Donovan

Michael Kelly

Changeling (2008)

7.6 4.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: R

Story: Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

Plot: biography, based on true story, clergyman, child in peril, police corruption, los angeles, california, single mother, ...

Time: 1920s

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Introduction to 1920s Cinema

The 1920s was a transformative period for the film industry, with significant advancements in technology and storytelling. The introduction of sound in films, known as 'talkies,' revolutionized the medium and paved the way for modern cinema.

Popular Movie Titles

Some notable movies from the 1920s include The Gold Rush (1925), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), and Metropolis (1927). These films showcased the artistic and technical capabilities of the time, with Metropolis being a pioneering work in the science fiction genre.

Trends and Influences

The 1920s had a profound influence on the development of subsequent film genres, including:

Film Noir: influenced by the German Expressionist movement, characterized by dark and moody visuals
Comedy: the 1920s saw the rise of comedic stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton
Horror: the introduction of sound enabled the creation of more frightening and immersive horror films

The 1920s also witnessed the emergence of iconic stars, such as Greta Garbo and Rudolph Valentino, who captivated audiences with their on-screen presence. The decade's cinematic offerings continue to inspire filmmakers and entertain audiences today, with many classic titles being restored and re-released for modern viewers.